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8 PowerEdge R620 Technical Guide
2 System features
Compared to the previous generation of Dell PowerEdge servers, the R620 has more drive bay
options, more PCIe slots, PCIe 3.0, a larger memory footprint, flexible I/O, Express Flash PCIe
solid-state drives and advanced system management.
Comparison of PowerEdge systems
The PowerEdge R620 is a direct replacement for the predecessor R610. Table 2 compares some of
the features of the R620 to the R610.
Table 2. Comparing the PowerEdge R610 to PowerEdge R620
Feature
PowerEdge R610
PowerEdge R620
Chassis
1U rack
1U rack
Processors
Intel Xeon processors 5500 and
5600 series
Intel Xeon processor
E5-2600 and E5-2600 v2 product families
Internal interconnect
Intel QuickPath Interconnect
Intel QuickPath Interconnect
Memory
1
12 x DDR3 RDIMM and UDIMM
Up to 192GB
24 x DDR3 RDIMM, UDIMM, and LRDIMM
Up to 768GB
Hard drive bays
(hot plug)
6 x 2.5”
10 x 2.5”
RAID controller
PERC 6/i, SAS 6/iR, PERC 6/E,
H200, H700, H800
PERC S110, H310, H710, H710P, H810
Express Flash drives
N/A
Up to 2 Express Flash PCIe SSDs
PCI slots
2 PCIe 2.0
3 PCIe 3.0
Embedded NICs
4 x 1Gb with optional TOE
Select Network Adapter: minimum
configuration of 4 x 1Gb, 10Gb (optional)
Power supplies
Hot-plug, redundant power
supply units: 502W, 717W
Hot-plug, redundant power supply units:
495W, 750W, 1100W, 1100W DC
Dell OpenManage
Systems Management
Dell OpenManage
Lifecycle Controller 1.x
iDRAC6 (Express or Enterprise)
with
Lifecycle Controller 1.x
OpenManage Essentials
OMSA Agent
OpenManage Power Center (requires iDRAC7
Enterprise with Lifecycle Controller)
OpenManage Integrations and Connections
iDRAC7 Express with Lifecycle Controller
(standard option)
Support for internal GPU
No
Yes (available through CFI or field upgrade
only)
Power efficiency
Gold
Titanium
Availability
Hot-plug drives
Hot-plug redundant cooling
Hot-plug redundant power
supply units
Internal SD module
Hot-plug drives
Hot-plug redundant cooling
Hot-plug redundant power supply units
Internal dual SD module
1
GB means 1 billion bytes and TB equals 1 trillion bytes; actual capacity varies with preloaded material and operating
environment and will be less.